Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	house_n	king_n	parliament_n	4,083	5	6.9002	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84007	Englands troublers troubled, or the just resolutions of the plaine-men of England, against the rich and mightie: by whose pride treachery and wilfulnes, they are brought into extream necessity and misery.		1648 (1648)	Wing E3067; Thomason E459_11; ESTC R201939	9,703	17

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